Basit Ameer A, Nauman Shazia
GIFT Business School, GIFT University, Gujranwala, Pakistan.
Riphah School of Business and Management, Riphah International University (Lahore), Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 16;13:1086346. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1086346. eCollection 2022.
This study investigated the effect of workplace loneliness on work-related subjective well-being by proposing work engagement as an explanatory mechanism in the workplace loneliness-job dissatisfaction relationship. Moreover, the study examines the need to belong as a coping mechanism in the relationship between workplace loneliness and work engagement. Specifically, the study posits that workplace loneliness reduces the positive and fulfilling state of work engagement that in turn increases job dissatisfaction and that this mediation depends on the employee's level of need to belong. Data were collected from employees ( = 274) working in diverse domestic and multinational organizations in Lahore, Pakistan. Results showed that workplace loneliness reduced the work engagement of lonely individuals that in turn increased their job dissatisfaction. However, the deleterious effect of workplace loneliness on work engagement was weaker for individuals having a higher need to belong. These findings have important implications for organizations wishing to mitigate the harmful effects of workplace loneliness on employees' subjective well-being.
本研究通过提出工作投入作为工作场所孤独与工作不满关系中的一种解释机制，调查了工作场所孤独对与工作相关的主观幸福感的影响。此外，该研究考察了归属需求作为工作场所孤独与工作投入关系中的一种应对机制。具体而言，该研究假定工作场所孤独会降低工作投入的积极和充实状态，进而增加工作不满，并且这种中介作用取决于员工的归属需求水平。数据收集自巴基斯坦拉合尔不同的国内和跨国组织中的员工（n = 274）。结果表明，工作场所孤独降低了孤独个体的工作投入，进而增加了他们的工作不满。然而，对于归属需求较高的个体，工作场所孤独对工作投入的有害影响较弱。这些发现对希望减轻工作场所孤独对员工主观幸福感有害影响的组织具有重要意义。
